Am 11.01.2015 17:11, schrieb Paul Houle: > If anything is weak about the fundamental data model it is that aliases and > labels are not reified the way the claims are. This is a big deal if you > want a > usable lexical database.
The plan is to support even more fine grained modeling of grammatical properties, translations, etc - but not on "data items" (which model concepts) but using "lexical entities", which model words, phrases or expressions. This is just a rough draft yet, though, see <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary>. It seems prudent to have lexical entities as first class citizens, but separate from concepts. Basically, lexical WD would relate to Wiktionary like the conceptual WD relates to Wikipedia. Until then, you can always go ahead and create properties like "official name" (P1448) and qualify it in whatever way. Having labels, descriptions and aliases separate does not keep you from modeling them again as statements. One remaining obstacle is the fact that WD does not have a data type for multilingual text yet, but that will be added soon(ish). -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
